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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Biology and ideology from Descartes to Dawkins. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010 (OCoLC)763180400 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Denis Alexander; Ronald L Numbers |
| ISBN: | 9780226608402 0226608409 9780226608419 0226608417 |
| OCLC Number: | 432595245 |
| Description: | 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The cultural authority of natural history in early modern europe / Peter Harrison -- Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century France / Shirley A. Roe -- Eighteenth-century uses of vitalism in constructing the human sciences / Peter Hanns Reill -- Biology in the service of natural theology: Paley, Darwin, and the Bridgewater Treatises / Jonathan R. Topham -- Race, empire, and biology before Darwinism / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Darwin's choice / Nicolaas Rupke -- Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement / Edward J. Larson -- Genetics, eugenics, and the holocaust / Paul Weindling -- Darwinism, Marxism, and genetics in the Soviet Union: the dialectics of co-evolution / Nikolai Krementsov -- Evolution and the idea of social progress / Michael Ruse -- Beauty and the beast? : conceptualizing sex in evolutionary narratives / Erika Lorraine Milam -- Creationism, intelligent design, and modern biology / Ronald L. Numbers -- The ideological uses of evolutionary biology in recent atheist apologetics / Alister E. Mcgrath. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers. |
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"A gripping book on the grey area between the use and abuse of biology for ideological purposes. Eugenics, racism and sexism, apologias for theism, vitalism, and atheism are just a few of the agendas that have shaped, and been shaped by, biological theory. Describing extrapolations that have often added to the sum of human suffering, the essays here, from distinguished historians of science, are authoritative, compelling, and disturbing."<br><br>--John Brooke, University of Oxford Read more...
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